About the Role
As a contractor, you will play a critical role in supporting the project team and ensuring the successful execution of projects. Join us and you will get to work on projects that solve some of the most complex economic and community development challenges in the country.
Responsibilities
- Own the production schedule across the curriculum portfolio, from intake through launch.
- Sequence and prioritize concurrent builds against capacity, dependencies, and deadlines.
- Map dependencies and secure the inputs each build needs to stay on track.
- Monitor progress and forecast risk, adjusting scope, sequence, or resourcing before dates slip.
- Track throughput and cycle time, and use them to make production faster and more reliable over time.
- Allocate work across instructional designers, content creators, multimedia developers, and reviewers based on capacity and skill.
- Scope, onboard, and load-balance contractors, matching external capacity to demand.
- Assign and manage tasks, deadlines, and milestones in the team's project management platform, Nifty.
- Own clean handoffs between production phases so nothing stalls between stages.
- Hold production to defined quality standards before anything reaches a learner.
- Run QA and final review gates ahead of each launch.
- Support LMS administration, including course setup, testing, publishing, enrollment, and reporting.
- Maintain production documentation, templates, and standards so quality is repeatable rather than dependent on any one person.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for production status across internal teams and clients.
- Give clear, current updates: what is on track, what is at risk, and what needs a decision.
- Prepare SMEs, contractors, and reviewers ahead of deliverables and reviews so work moves without delay.
- Escalate blockers early, with a proposed path forward.
- Improve the production system itself: the workflows, templates, and standards that raise throughput and quality as the portfolio grows.
Requirements
- Experience owning delivery across multiple concurrent projects, not just tracking them, while meeting tight deadlines.
- Experience directing or coordinating the work of creative and technical contributors, including contractors.
- Strong organizational and time management skills with exceptional attention to detail.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience with project management platforms (e.g., Asana, Monday.com, Smartsheet, Microsoft Planner, Jira, or similar).
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office or Google Workspace.
- Experience managing instructional design or e-learning production.
- Familiarity with Learning Management System (LMS) administration.
- Knowledge of course development workflows, including collaboration with SMEs, multimedia developers, and instructional designers.
- Experience in a client-facing consulting or agency production environment.
Skills
- Project Management
- Organizational Skills
- Time Management
- Attention to Detail
- Written Communication
- Verbal Communication
- Microsoft Office
- Google Workspace
- Instructional Design
- E-learning Production
- Learning Management System (LMS) Administration
- Course Development Workflows
- Client-facing Consulting
- Agency Production
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Contractor
- Remote
- Part-time
Experience Level
- Contractor
Salary/Compensations
- $80 per hour
About the Company
- Next Street is invested in supporting individuals joining us in our mission.
- Next Street offers clear and timely communication, access to resources, timely payments, and clear contracting agreements.
- Next Street is an equal opportunity employer.
Equal Opportunity
- Next Street is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.
